By Guest Contributor on Sep 3, 2008 in Faith, Featured, Mormon Studies, Sideblog, Socialization, Spirituality, Sunstone, Symposium, mormon, mormons, symposiums, technology | 7 Comments
By Clay Whipkey, Guest Contributor
If there is a common thread in the Sunstone community, it might just be the fascination with knowing insider information about things which are complex and mysterious. So if you’ll allow me to channel Leonard Arrington for a moment, I’m going to pull back the curtain on the Sunstone audio archives [...]
By Mary Ellen on Aug 12, 2008 in Community, Featured, Mormon Studies, Sunstone, Symposium, symposiums | 7 Comments
My first Salt Lake Symposium as Director of Outreach and Symposia is behind me. Whew!
I’m elated about the positive feedback on the event, unsurprised about most of the complaints, a little sad–and a lot relieved–that it’s over, and I’m already thinking ahead for the 2009 symposium 12-15 August.
We’re working on getting the mp3 audio recordings [...]
By Mary Ellen on Jul 27, 2008 in Community, Featured, Mormon Studies, Sunstone, Symposium | 1 Comment
New Sunstone directors Stephen Carter and Mary Ellen Robertson will be interviewed this afternoon on Van Hale’s radio show, Mormon Miscellaneous. We’ll discuss the upcoming Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium and forthcoming issues of Sunstone magazine.
Mormon Miscellaneous airs live in Salt Lake City from 5:00-7:00 pm MST on radio station KTKK 630 AM and streams [...]
By Mary Ellen on Jul 21, 2008 in Book of Mormon Historicity, Faith, Featured, Mormon Studies, Symposium, mormon, symposiums | 10 Comments
Pardon the (brief) interruption to the gay marriage discussions.
I wanted to direct your attention to the revised version of the 2008 Salt Lake Sunstone Symposium preliminary program posted on the Sunstone web site. At this writing, the symposium is 16 days away. There’s a lot of work to do and much to look forward to! [...]
By Matt Thurston on Apr 30, 2007 in Mormon Studies, Rotation, Sunstone | 43 Comments
Sitting here in my favorite t-shirt with a pint of Phish Food and my MacBook waiting for the PBS/Frontline documentary “The Mormons” to start. Thought I’d take a stab at keeping a running commentary…
By Dan on Jan 31, 2007 in Community, Literature, Mormon Studies | 1 Comment
Just a quick note to celebrate a neat development in Mormon studies and to help spread the word for potential job seekers. UVSC is a terrific school that is steadily growing a religious studies program that includes courses on Mormon topics.
By Scot Denhalter on Jan 11, 2007 in Mormon Studies, Rotation, Sunstone | 7 Comments
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John Remy’s article “Saving the Dead: A Comparative Study of Post-funerary Rites in Japanese and Mormon Culture” in the November issue of Sunstone came to me, rather serendipitously, at a time I had been thinking about the very anti-Reformationist relationship we Mormons have with our dead. Like the Roman Catholics, we perform an obligation we [...]
By Matt Thurston on Aug 17, 2006 in Missionary Work, Mormon Studies, Rotation, Sunstone | 32 Comments
My mission to Taipei, Taiwan from 1989-1990 was filled with singular experiences; your mission to Timbuktu was doubtless no exception. But can you top this?
My companion and I were street-contacting in Nan Kang, a newly opened area and small suburb of Taipei, when we stumbled upon a small college. Perfect: College Students! College Students made [...]
By Scot Denhalter on Apr 12, 2006 in Joseph Smith, Mormon Studies | 3 Comments
Are new insights into Mormonism waiting to be uncovered if we were only to pay more attention to the religion and less to its founder? In her article “Tracking the Sincere Believer” (Sunstone: December 2005), Laurie Maffly-Kipp entices us with such a promise, but I was forced to wonder at times to whom is the [...]
